How to be lucky?

Topic A

For fighter jets landing on an aircraft carrier, it is a standard procedure to advance the throttle to full power as soon as the aircraft's wheels touch the deck. This is a safety measure to ensure the aircraft can quickly go around again if the tail hook misses the arresting cables.

Similarly, are we ready for spontaneous things in life?
What if an interesting concert / show pops up next weekend in your city?
What if you get an opportunity to meet you always wanted to in the next couple of hrs by waiting at the hotel? Do you have the questions ready to ask him/her?

What if someone wants to connect you to someone worthwhile which was not in your near term radar?

Are you ready for these spontaneous 'chances'? Are you adequately prepared?

Topic B

Another aspect of living a full life involves 2 things: Discipline and Spontaneity.

How both of these seemingly contradictory words can work well, is very well written by Naval Ravikant.

"Live a Disciplined Life, Spontaneously"

In brief, Discipline creates the conditions for spontaneity to thrive.

If you want to live spontaneously, to seize unexpected opportunities, follow your energy, or create freely, you need discipline to handle that freedom. Otherwise, spontaneity becomes chaos.

Without discipline, spontaneity is just distraction.

Topic C

Today, I learnt the simple equation of Luck.

Luck = Randomness * Readiness

Are you ready and doing enough random things for luck to strike?

Have you systemised the process of doing random things?
Have you become observant to things to spot new interesting random things?

The above three topics are tied together as such:

Discipline leads to Spontaneous time.

We need to be ready for things.

When the 2 combine, we get lucky a.k.a happy and successful.